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11. The Council shall from time to time fix the hours during which each market shall be open to the public. The hours during which any market is open to the public shall be posted on a board placed in a conspicuous position at such market. At least one month's previous notice in writing shall be given to each stall-holder of any alteration in the hours during which any market is open to the public.
12. No person shall make use of any avenue or thoroughfare of any market for the conveyance of merchandise not intended for sale or exposure for sale in such market.
13. No person shall sell, or offer or expose for sale, any article in any part of the market other than the part thereof which is appro- priated for the sale of such article.
14. No person shall hawk or cry any article whatever for sale in any market.
15. No person shall in any market beg or apply for alms or expose or exhibit any sores, wounds or bodily ailments or deformity, nor shall any person so afflicted or any leper engage or assist in any business therein.
16. No person shall commit a nuisance in any part of any market.
17. No person shall spit in any part of any market.
18. No person other than such caretakers and officers as the Council shall decide shall sleep in any market.
19. No person shall wash or bathe in any fish tank or in any receptacle which is used for the storage of food.
Schedule.
Market Stalls.
20. Market stalls shall be classified and set apart by the Council for the sale respectively of meat, game, poultry, fish, fruit, vegetables and other perishable goods.
21. All market-stalls shall be numbered.
22. A register of all market stalls shall be kept by the Secretary of the Council in the form A in the Schedule to these by-laws. Every entry in such register shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein appearing. The person or persons whose name or names is or are entered in such register as the lessee is or are hereinafter referred as the stall-holder.
23. No stall-holder shall use such stall for any other purpose than that for which it is let.
24. Every stall-holder, who absents himself from the Colony for a period exceeding a month, shall notify such fact to the Secretary of the Council and report to him the name of the agent responsible for his stall during his absence.
25. Every occupied stall shall have a signboard in front showing in full, both in English and Chinese, the name or names of the stall-holder or holders, and his or their photograph or photographs shall be affixed thereto. All photographs shall be renewed from time to time as the Council may direct.
26. No signboard or blind of any market stall shall be so arranged as to obstruct any thoroughfare in such market, and no stall-holder shall place or store any goods outside such market stall or allow them to project beyond it.
27. Every stall-holder shall cause his stall to be properly cleansed as often as may be necessary to maintain such stall in a sanitary condition.
28. Every dealer in flesh meat shall thoroughly wash and cleanse all fittings and utensils belonging thereto at least once a day.